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Thursday, August 13, 2009

"It Didn't Mean Anything Bad, So We Dropped It"

Well.

The Senate Finance Committee will drop a controversial provision on consultations for end-of-life care from its proposed healthcare bill, its top Republican member said Thursday.

The committee, which has worked on putting together a bipartisan healthcare reform bill, will drop the controversial provision after being derided as "death panels" to encourage euthanasia by conservatives

The Senate is confused. We have been told by the President that the provision did NOT mean anything. The House just put it into HR3200 to see if anyone was paying attention. So since it didn't mean anything at all, the Senate certainly didn't have to remove it.

It refers to things you should have in place prior to your death in the first damn place.

Okay, then, why the need to legislate it?

And, moreover, given Obama's (and liberals in general) propensity for...ignoring, say, the Constitution, why should we trust that any panel or law will respect what we have written in our wills, powers of attorney, or other such directives?

Obama could say "I'm not punching you in the face" as he breaks your nose and people would still believe him. But the guy's a ballsy, boldface liar. That charade can only last for so long.

The meme for the left "that's not what it means" is only for the simple minded...but I'm redundant. Words have meanings, at least they used to until Obama used them i.e. "uniquely qualified" now means a tax cheat...anyway, the simple way to prove the "alarmists" wrong was and is, to clarify the language...something that the Dems have refused to do time and again. If it "doesn't mean it" then fix it so that the words in the bill "don't say it!"

They did. They got rid of it after people who don't have the mental capability to understand what was written started making up shit for political reasons.

Amy, why put it into the bill? Because people aren't that smart in general and DON'T have advance directives in place. Getting more people involved in figuring out how they want to end their life will save taxpayers billions in medical costs (not to mention the piece of mind it gives family members dealing with the process of losing a loved one).